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Anachronism
Snowy Owl
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14 Mar 2005, 1:07 am

Somebody here mentioned that they were very interested in Nikola Tesla. I knew a little bit about the individual because he conducted experiments here, mainly that he had demonstrated that electricity could be practically used without wires (although not in a capitalist fashion as anybody in the area could have free electricity).

Anyways, I thought this was a neat article.

http://www.teslathemovie.org/tesla1/history.htm


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22 Jun 2014, 2:28 pm

anachronism.
That is an interesting username, and seems very appropriate for describing Nikola Tesla and his type of thinking.

"The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material/textile, a plant or animal, a custom or anything else associated with a particular period in time so that it is incorrect to place it outside its proper temporal domain."



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22 Jun 2014, 4:51 pm

[Moved from General Autism Discussion to Computers, Math, Science, and Technology]


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